This display of what it looks like for America to retreat from a strategically important country was the latest chapter in two months of tumult and recrimination surrounding USAID and foreign aid.

USAID, now shut down, was instrumental in various global initiatives, including forest preservation around the Panama Canal. The agency pioneered the Famine Early Warning System, a crucial tool ...

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Kirsten Weeks has worked in global public health for over 25 years. With the Trump administration's freeze on foreign assistance, Weeks worries that America's soft power will suffer. She worries ...

Building public health infrastructure in Chad Amy Bei, an associate professor at the School of Public Health, had been leading two global health initiatives reliant on USAID funding: a program to ...

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The future of USAID – the world's largest donor of humanitarian aid, including projects to raise the quality and safety of medicines in low- and middle-income countries – is in doubt.

Early this year, the Trump-led administration, pulled the plug on USAID funding, globally. The “stop work” directive has brought to a halt a few major projects, especially within the health ...

His symbolic weapon of choice: a very large chainsaw. An early target: The U.S. Agency for International Development (or USAID). Charging waste, fraud and abuse at the agency, the world's richest ...

The administration’s unlawful dismantling of USAID has already led to the termination of most foreign assistance programs, displaced thousands of public servants, and triggered humanitarian fallout ...